Helldivers 2’s long-awaited DSS Stratagem station is now active, ready for donations

With this year’s Liberty Day now behind us, it was only a matter of time before Helldivers 2 played host to a fancy new event of some sort. Enter the DSS: the Democracy Space Station, which has slowly been getting built up over the past few months.

The Democracy Space Station is, for all intents and purposes, now fully up and running. The kicker is that it’s functionally useless for the time being, until the community can rack up a significant enough resource pool to unlock new goodies. A highlight is the Planetary Bombardment perk, which is right about halfway done at the time of writing and will give us bonus Orbital Barrage Stratagems on missions and should improve liberation efforts in the future.

Check out Helldivers 2’s Democracy Space Station if you’ve got Samples to spare

The DSS is functionally a wide-sweeping buff platform that will assist players in various ways, should they be able to field its Tactical Actions. The investments that need to be made for these Actions to work are downright immense, however. Planetary Bombardment calls for Orange Samples, while Eagle Storm necessitates Green Samples. Orbital Blockade, on the other hand, will require a Requisition investment, which isn’t too hard to stack up over time.

Regardless, unless you’re in a position where you’ve already got everything unlocked and have your Super Destroyer fully built up, I would advise against spending Samples and Requisition on the DSS. Somewhat predictably, the results of the DSS building campaign (which consisted of several large-scale Major Order operations) aren’t all that interesting to some players.

The DSS also allows players to vote on where it should move next. While it has been built in the Gaellivare system, it would seem that the current Majority Vote is to move it to Mastia, which may well protect it from the ongoing Automaton Jet Brigade onslaught. Fun stuff, that.

Some players have an issue with the Democracy Space Station so far because it seems to be a fairly passive and unengaging bonus UI that might not make a big difference in the pace of Galactic War at large. While Arrowhead Games definitely didn’t suggest this would be the case, some were hoping that the DSS would also serve as a social hub of some sort.

If you’re still intent on spending Samples at the DSS (which I am, too, just to see what comes of it in a practical sense), I’d suggest looking into our various Helldivers 2 farming guides:

• Common Samples
• Super Samples
• Difficulty Overview

However, it hasn’t taken the community long to get many of the DSS’s starter perks half-way done. To that end, I expect the first batch of Tactical Actions to be available soon enough, and then we’ll see whether all of our efforts have been for naught.